WILD ONES LISTENING SESSIONS
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Storytelling Through Listening with Cut Chemist
Presented by Dust & Grooves and Only The Wild Ones
A four-part listening series with Cut Chemist, following his path from early listening to artistic voice.
Each session unfolds live through records as a continuous, narrated sequence.
Cut Chemist works through the records that shaped him and how they inform the way he hears,
edits, and assembles sound.
Told through selections, narration, and live mixing, the series plays like a cinematic storybook album.
Episode 1: Imagining Music - Learning to Listen Through Soundtracks and "Non-Music"
Presented by Dust & Grooves and Only The Wild Ones
MAY 3RD 5-9PM
Cut Chemist revisits his earliest encounters with sound, from movie soundtracks and radio to dialogue records, exploring how they taught him to “see” music. A formative chapter where listening becomes storytelling and sets the foundation for everything that follows.
Film soundtracks, radio, and dialogue records form the base. Star Wars, The Wizard of Oz, and Chopin at home establish a way of hearing where music is felt before it is understood.
Dialogue, composition, and experimentation begin to merge. Laurie Anderson’s Big Science, Art of Noise, and Ken Nordine’s Word Jazz introduce sound as narrative.
With Double Dee & Steinski’s Lessons, the language of film is cut, looped, and rebuilt over beats, opening the door to a new form of composition, leading into Cut Chemist’s own Lessons and the start of an artistic voice.
The thread continues through artists working with narrative and sound, from Public Enemy to DJ Shadow and Kid Koala.
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Episode 2: Tuned In, Comped Out - Music Discovery Through Compilations
Presented by Dust & Grooves and Only The Wild Ones
Cut Chemist moves from early listening into discovery, pulling the cat out of the bag on how compilations shaped the way he (and we) discovered music.
James Brown’s In the Jungle Groove (yes! a compilation) and Ultimate Breaks and Beats, sets him on a quest for the ultimate break. Vinyl Dogs and Ethiopiques ignite a fascination with Ethiopian music and global grooves, while Dusty Fingers opens the door to a deeper dive into the world of rare grooves.
Pebbles, Alternative Funk, Pure Comp, and Charlie R&B continue to build his musical knowledge, forming the foundation for deeper digging and music production.
This episode pays respect to the compilations–and the experts behind them–that helped shape our musical taste and identity.
JUNE 7TH 5-9PM
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Episode 3: To All My Teachers - Refining & Defining Taste
Presented by Dust & Grooves and Only The Wild Ones
Cut Chemist focuses on the people and unofficial mentors who shaped his taste. Close friends, touring DJs, and occasional digging buddies act as teachers, passing along records and ideas.
Following the compilations that trained his ear, the search now expands out to the field—touring with Jurassic 5, time spent in used record stores and dusty basements, opening new paths and leading to new musical obsessions.
DJ Format, DJ Shadow, Hymnal, Egon, Keb Darge, Dante Carfagna, Edan and a wild bunch of kindred spirits, each in their own term, offer knowledge and perspective on music discovery.
As that circle widens, new territories come into view—from spiritual jazz to garage, psych, and outsider music. Personal recommendations, trades, and tour stops push the search forward. Solo listening gives way to human interactions.
JULY 5TH 5-9PM
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Episode 4: Building The Garden - From Listening to Making—An Album Forms
Presented by Dust & Grooves and Only The Wild Ones
In this final episode, Cut Chemist ties the journey together by focusing on the records, travels, and ideas that informed the making of his debut solo album The Audience’s Listening.
The final installment deconstructs the source material and creative process behind the acclaimed release, offering a rare look into the sonic architecture of the record.
At the center is The Garden, where sounds–gathered over years of digging and listening–are cut, looped, and arranged into a finished track. Brazilian discoveries, European library recordings, and private finds become the material.
